AuthorTopic: How to set UK keyboard in 7.0 lite? (Read 2296 times)

The all suggest editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf but that file doesn't exist... I tried editing xorg.conf.in as it looked about right but adding options for 'gb' doesn't make any difference after restarting X.

Not enough time to chase it down tonight. But I wonder if this couldn't account for some reported install problems, also.

Later: Added a temporary dump to build_menu_modelx. Returns STATE=2, so it's not finding "! model".Still later: It looks like bash no longer does [[ =~ ]] . Changed the first one to just "! model" and the exit changed to STATE=1.

@PaulR: It's supposed to be done by /sbin/vxkbset, which can be accessed by start > system > vasm, choose super > XWINDOW > XKBSET, but that's not working. Until this fuddle is corrected (or someone tells me how silly and wrong I am when I'm tired), put "setxkbmap gb" in gdm's startup script.(see below)

I'm too tired to locate gdm's startup script, hopefully someone will point it out or suggest a better place.

There's also a way to put just this change in xorg.conf.d , but I haven't figured that out yet.

Seriously, I should sleep:If you have /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf , as root edit 'Option "XkbLayout" "us"' to 'Option "XkbLayout" "gb"' . If the file's not there,cp /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ then edit. Restart X, or use the "setxkbmap gb" command directly to change it for the current session and let the system pick up the change from xorg.conf.d at next reboot.

Things change quickly, and documentation seems to have a hard time keeping up. There is also a lot of old information floating on the 'net.

VL7 defaults to using no xorg.conf, as the auto-configuration usually gets it right. You can still do manual configuration by creating an xorg.conf file, or adding extra parameters in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d